The Mayan Temples of Tikal

After the Mucbil'ha caves, we continued to drive North to the province of El Peten, to the island of Flores. Flores is a small and beautiful tourist town with great restaurants and little shops. During our stay in Flores we took a day trip to Tikal. Tikal is a National Park filled with ancient Mayan ruins from around the 6th- 10th century AD. The park has many tall Mayan temples, grand plazas, monuments, stone carvings and stelas.

The entrance of Tikal.

A very cool sign.

This was our guide who took us around Tikal and shared about the history.

This is the trail to get to the centre of Tikal. It takes about 15 minutes to walk.


So along the way we had some fun. Steve pretending to be Tarzan.

As we walked along the trail, there was another trail... the leaf ant highway. They are very busy ants- they cut out leaves in the jungle and then take them to their home which can be miles away.





The Ceiba tree is sacred for the Maya. It is a very large tree! Kristin looks very small beside the tree.

There are a couple of very large temples in the park. These are a couple of them.

This temple is called Temple 1.

Janine, Lindsay, Marisa, Linda, Elizabeth, Jeremy and Steve in the door of some ruins.

Alida, Kristine, Ashley and Elizabeth in front of some stelaes.



This is a Stelae up close.

Jill by some steps!




Jill and Ethan climbed those steps!

Emma excited about the temple!

Jason in a window.



Nic in front of a Stelae.


The jungle has overtaken this building! Incredible isn't it?!


The ball court.


The boys checking out some cool buildings.


The next bunch of pictures are of us on temple 4 looking out at temple 1 and 2.











Wildlife!!! Howler monkeys!